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The Woke Sacrifice Children on the Altar of Ideology
On
the Media is
an hour-long, weekly radio show produced by WNYC, a New York city National
Public Radio affiliate. NPR and WNYC are both taxpayer-funded media.
OTM has aired since 1993. It investigates, as its name suggests, media,
including video, audio, and social media. OTM is syndicated to over 400
stations. OTM has won Peabody Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Silver
Gavel Award, a Gracie Award, a Mirror Award, and an award from the National
Press Club. OTM's hostess is Brooke Gladstone.
On
August 11, 2023, On the Media broadcast "How the Times
Covers Trans Rights," a forty-minute segment. The host was Micah Loewinger.
Loewinger is an award-winning young journalist who focuses on the
far right. The segment's online site features a
hand-made sign in pale blue, pink, and white, the colors of trans extremism.
The sign reads, "TRANS RiGHTS ARE HUMAN RiGHTS" [sic]. Accompanying
text reports that "Over the past few years, the country has seen a surge
of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation – primarily stoked by the Republican
party and conservative pundits." There have been, the text claims,
"coded calls for violence."
This broadcast, from award-winning, taxpayer-funded media, disseminates lies about trans extremism. These lies are not victimless, venial sins. These lies are actively damaging the lives of thousands of vulnerable children. These lies have been used to destroy the careers of educators who resist them (example here). These lies have been used to sever the bonds between parent and child. A father has been jailed for resisting these lies. A mother was arrested in front of her children for resisting these lies. Female athletes have lost titles and scholarships. Women imprisoned with men have been raped. The lies disseminated by OTM are implicated in multiple deaths (see here, here, here, here).
Mutilated
young victims cry out in crippling despair. One such young person, Kobe, was,
as he puts it, "indoctrinated" by trans ideology on social media
beginning at age 11. "I don't want to use the word 'groom' but older trans
people teach us what to do … It was all just stuff implanted into my
head." Though he was not suicidal, those indoctrinating him told him to
use "suicide tactics," and to tell his parents it was
"transition or death." He began to identify as female when he was 13;
he received a puberty blocker and estrogen. "I am permanently
stunted" because of the estrogen and puberty suppression. The puberty
blocker, he said, suppressed his libido, his drive, and his happiness. In fact
mental instability is a known side effect of
puberty blockers. Starting when he was 15 years old, gender
"therapists" pushed him toward castration. They convinced him that he
suffered from "testosterone poisoning" because he had testicles. He
underwent castration at 19. As a side effect, when he is physically intimate,
he experiences "immense chronic pain." He suffers from "really
bad urinary complications" including incontinence. "I can't tell when
my bladder is empty … Public bathrooms are scary" because it takes him
"ten minutes to pee." He uses the words "mutilate" and
"self-harm" to describe what he did to himself, "with the
permission of a psychiatrist."
Kobe
now realizes he did this because of internalized homophobia. He should have
just been allowed to be a gay boy, not a "trans woman." Online
groomers and medical experts lied to him and damaged him for life. Kobe now
receives "messages from trans people every single day on Twitter telling
me to kill myself." "They see someone who threatens them. I had
family support. I was on blockers young. I had the surgery." In short, he
received a full menu of "gender affirming care." But, Kobe says, this
"gender affirming care "didn't fix anything." This truth
"completely destroys their narrative. They want to keep up the lie that
the regret rate is 1%. It's just not." Kobe shares his agony in order to
save other little boys from what groomers, medical professionals and ideologues
put him through. "The entire system needs to be reformed." You can
see more of Kobe's story here and here.
Decent
people, including this author and this publication, stand against hate of any
kind. We stand against hate crimes; we up stand for human dignity. We want
little girls who prefer sports to Barbie dolls and little boys who love fashion
and dress-up to enjoy healthy, happy childhoods. Bullying, whether of gender
non-conforming children, or fat kids, or children with learning disabilities,
is abhorrent and should be effectively addressed by adults. We want qualified
candidates, including trans-identified people, to get and keep jobs; we want
access to housing for clean, quiet tenants who pay their rent on time, whether
they are trans-identified or not. What we condemn is a false narrative
promulgated by the Left with the goal of undermining society. Those
disseminating this false narrative are callous ideologues. They are little
Stalins who don't care about the victims of their lies. We do care, so we speak
up.
OTM's forty-minute broadcast
devotes a great deal of time to Jules Gill-Peterson, a man who identifies as a
woman and a trans activist who identifies as an "historian" and a
"professor" at Johns Hopkins.
Gill-Peterson also identifies as a "Sad Brown
Girl," that is, non-white, although
he appears white, not brown, in photos.
Gill-Peterson
is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child, a book that argues
that trans is not recent, not a trend, and not limited to adults. There have
always been transgender children, according to this book, winner of the
Children's Literature Association Award. A positive review of the book praises
its insistence that "binary sex and gender are extremely recent and
fragile ideas reliant on a dehumanizing, racially coded conceptualization of
the child as plasticity." Two of five Amazon reviews give the book one
star. One Amazon review calls it "Unreadable," another "a
cumbersome-to-read impenetrable word salad." One reviewer says, "I’m
an English major with five degrees and a PhD in Psychology I and couldn’t get
through the the thirty three pages of the preface and introduction." These
comments are pertinent. Judith Butler is famous for impenetrable prose and
famous for her gender performativity theory that many cite as support for trans
extremism. If an expert wants to sell a patently false idea, for example, the
idea that male sex and female sex were invented in the twentieth century, and
that people can be any sex they want to be, the best strategy is to argue that
indefensible point in impenetrable prose.
Gill-Peterson's
use of children is a key component of trans extremism. Children serve two
strategic goals. First, those advancing trans extremism use children as human
shields. "Republicans and Christian fascists are abusing trans children!"
is a cry meant to elicit pity. The real victims are defenseless children,
extremists insist. Compassionate citizens must protect trans children from
abusive right-wing Christians. These appeals become particularly maudlin when
combined with the misleading euphemism, "health care." "Evil
right-wing Christians deny health care to trans kids," is a battle cry.
The "health care" referred to is in fact castration, double
mastectomies, and other irreversible surgical and pharmaceutical interventions
that permanently damage confused and vulnerable minors.
Gill-Peterson
exemplifies the exploitation of children as human shields in a March 9, 2022 tweet.
He characterizes those who struggle to protect children from iatrogenic,
pharmaceutical, and surgical mutilation as members of "a child-hating
culture where everyone is invested in children suffering." In another tweet, Gill-Peterson
expresses hope that the family can be destroyed and that children can be freed
from families that suppress trans identity. He rejects "a privatized,
sentimental and normative politics of the family as bulwark."
In a New Republic article, Gill-Peterson expresses especial hostility to "white
moms." "'The figure of the mom is hanging over everything,'" he
says. "Moms have been at the forefront of ADF's legal battles to exclude
trans girls [that is, boys] from girls' sports … These moms are part of a long
history of white women who saw it as their moral duty to the American nation to
speak out as mothers. White moms fought against school integration and for
warning labels on music," the article's author agreed. Gill-Peterson
continued, "'The moral righteousness accorded to white womanhood provides
a certain advantage … but it also comes at a cost.'"
In
addition to their usefulness as human shields, children serve another purpose
for the trans extremist. Extremists hope that by insisting that children and
even babies are born irrevocably trans, then trans will be understood as a
normal variation and an immutable characteristic, comparable to race or height,
and thus eligible for the same legal protections against discrimination as race
or height. That trans extremists claim that babies can be trans is not
hyperbole. In fact trans extremists claim that fetuses can be trans. See Dr.
Kerry McGregor in video from Boston Children's Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated
hospital, here. In short, Jules
Gill-Peterson's award-winning book insisting on the long-term existence of
trans children is a political weapon used to advance trans extremism.
According
to Professor Watchlist,
Gill-Peterson "referred to the gender binary as 'junk science' and
advocated for allowing children to transition at any age." Gill-Peterson
said that politicians and psychologists invented" the idea of two sexes
"70 years ago in a nefarious attempt to control people."
In
an video interview with Scientific American, Gill-Peterson claims that
there is a "war against trans people" comparable to white supremacy
and racism. Gill-Peterson repeatedly identifies trans people with black people
and other victims of racism, and anyone who questions trans extremism is
equated with white supremacists. Gill-Peterson does not support these
assertions with any facts; rather, he appropriates the historical struggle of
African Americans to buttress his unsupported fear mongering. Black people, for
their part, have mixed feelings about
their history being roped into trans extremism. At least one "queer African American" professor has protested against LGBT activists
"appropriating" Civil Rights history in phrases like "Gay Jim
Crow."
Gill-Peterson
doesn't recruit just black people in vain attempts to legitimize his false
assertions. He also uses intersex people. In fact intersex and trans are not
the same thing, and intersex people have objected to being exploited to serve trans extremism. Further, as a
trans-identified nurse points out, "The term 'intersex' is
misleading." And "neither intersex nor GD [gender dysphoria] defies
the reality of binary biological sex." In other words, neither genetic
conditions like Klinefelter's syndrome, in which boys are born with an extra X
chromosome, nor the existence of girls who insist that they are boys trapped in
girl bodies, changes the reality of "binary biological sex."
In
the Scientific American interview, Gill-Peterson favorably cites John
Money, a scholar with a documented history of falsifying results to serve his
ideological agenda. John Money also engaged in ultimately deadly sexual abuse
of child patients. A favorable citation to John Money diminishes
Gill-Peterson's and Scientific American's credibility and ethics. On the
other hand, in the video interview, Lisa Littman's breakthrough study of
rapid onset gender dysphoria is classed as "junk science."
In
an April 27, 2021 article published in Jewish Currents,
Gill-Peterson stirs up hatred against
Christianity and Christians. Christianity hates trans people, Jews, and
Muslims, he insists. Attempts to limit the mutilation of children are "an
attempt to use trans people as a pretext for a broader reformation of civil
life and citizenship to advance an authoritarian, Christian state policy."
Any resistance to trans extremism is part of an attempt to suppress Jews and
Muslims. "By promoting implicitly Christian policy" those who resist
trans extremism "characterize a range of non-Christian identities –
transness, but also Muslim and Jewish identities – as incompatible with the
mores of the public sphere." The ultimate goal is to kidnap trans children
from their biological parents and seed them into Christian households
"They could be adopted by a Christian family."
"The
construction of an authoritarian Christian ethnostate is a project that dates
back at least to the Reagan revolution." This Christian, fascist
ethnostate project "converged with anti-Blackness." "Christian
social service organizations," like Catholic Charities, are merely fronts
for Christian fascism. Attempts to make child mutilation illegal are part of
the denial of "healthcare, education, and civil rights for all but the
Christian ethnostate's privileged ruling class." Inevitably this will lead
to bills that "enshrine Christianity as the de facto state religion."
"Islamophobic, anti-Black, anti-immigrant, antisemitic, evangelical
Christian, and white nationalist groups all find themselves on the same side of
this issue," that is, trans extremism. "What's under threat is just
as much the quality of trans children's lives, the political conditions placed
on those lives, and the larger authoritarian and Christian political structures
in which they have become ensnared."
This
paranoid screed, this feverish hate-mongering, from an award-winning author and
university professor, is not grounded in fact. There are certainly Christians
who are supportive of trans extremism, for example, Father James Martin, a
celebrity priest who actively supports trans extremism. And resistance to trans extremism is not particularly
Christian. Muslim parents have made international news with their resistance to
trans extremism in schools. See for example Detroit, Michigan, in
October, 2022, and 2019 resistance by British Muslim parents
to trans extremism in schools. Therapist Sasha Ayad is a prominent opponent of
trans extremism. The man who calls himself Shape
Shifter is a prominent detransitioner, and
from a Muslim background. "I was brainwashed by the trans community,"
Shape Shifter says. Dr. Miriam Grossman, an observant Jew, has published books
opposing trans extremism. She has, of course, been pilloried for her resistance
to trans extremism. In an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, she cites her Jewish identity as a source of strength and
inspiration in spite of the backlash she has faced. Some black people have
resisted trans extremism. Dave Chappelle is a prominent example. See also Texas
Congressman Wesley Hunt's devastating argument against trans surgery for minors
here.
Nor
does one need to be a religious believer at all to resist trans extremism.
Richard Dawkins, arguably the world's most famous atheist, and perhaps the
world's most famous biologist, spoke out against
trans extremism. "Sex really is binary. You're either male or female, and
it's absolutely clear you can do it on gamete size. You can do it on
chromosomes. To me, as a biologist, it's distinctly weird people can simply
declare 'I am a woman though I have a penis.'" Debra Soh, Helen Joyce,
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, Michael Shermer, Douglas Murray, Peter Boghossian,
and James Lindsay are very prominent opponents of trans extremism, and they are
all atheists.
Trans-identified
persons themselves have fearlessly criticized trans extremism. Blair White, for
example, rejects the recruitment of children. "A four-year-old trans kid
is like a vegan cat. We all know whose making those life decisions," White
says. Dr. Erica Anderson is a psychologist and a man who identifies as a woman.
He has criticized trans extremism. "This has gone too far. It’s going to
get worse. I don’t want any part of it," he says. Buck Angel is
a woman who presents as a man. She performs in porn media. Rather than
insisting that she is a man, Angel identifies as a "female who lives as a
man." "The trans community is pushing out lies," Angel says.
"Biology isn't real? That's a lie. They are hurting us with these
weird-ass messages." Regarding Lia Thomas, a man, competing in women's
sports, Angel says, "F---
off ! F--- off! Thomas is ruining it for all of us." Angel has also spoken
out emphatically against attempts to trans
children. Gay men and lesbians have also spoken out, including Andrew Doyle,
aka Titiana McGrath (here and here).
In
short, Jules Gill-Peterson's Jewish Currents piece is a pack of lies.
But it's not just that. It's also Christophobic hate-mongering. Gill-Peterson
talks about war. It's a war he's trying to ignite, against anyone who disagrees
with him, starting with the demographic he hates the most, Christians.
The
August 11 OTM piece also gave time to Julie Hollar of Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting, or FAIR, a leftist group. Hollar has been an
activist for the Lesbian / Gay Rights Lobby.
Hollar is also the director of Boy
I Am, a documentary that defends
trans ideology from criticism.
Who
was not featured in the OTM piece? Anyone who might depart from trans
extremism. There were no physicians, desisters, parents, therapists, or
detransitioners to push back against any of the deadly lies Loewinger,
Gill-Peterson, or Hollar spoke.
"Right
wing politicians and pundits have made it clear that publicly supporting trans
rights will put a target on your back," is Loewinger's first sentence in
his OTM broadcast. "Trans people are a bona fide scapegoat."
Proof? In 2016, North Carolina tried to pass a bill "barring transgender people
from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity." And there are
laws "barring gender affirming care for minors at the state level. Now
over half of all states" are considering such legislation. "The
animus is crystal clear."
Loewinger
is doing what all hate-mongers do. He's doing what Harold Hill did in the
"Trouble in River City" number of The Music Man. He's
fomenting hatred of one group for another. He's dividing the world up into us
and them. We are all rational and compassionate. We are marching toward Utopia.
They are all hateful and destructive. They are dragging us all down the Hell.
We must gear up for the fight and we must defeat them. He's recruiting warriors
for a battle. Why must we fight? We must fight to defend ourselves. They are
putting a target on our backs. They are victimizers. We are victims. They want
to shoot us in the back. We must shoot them first. That is Loewinger's casus
belli.
Who
are these right-wing zealots putting targets on the backs of trans allies? The
New York Times. Another enemy is Emily Bazelon, writer at Slate and
at the New York Times. Bazelon received her BA and JD from Yale; she is
the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Another bad guy: Andrew Sullivan.
Sullivan is a gay man who argued for gay marriage. He is a former editor of The
New Republic, a left-leaning publication. Sullivan received his BA from
Oxford and his PhD from Harvard. You may think I am kidding. I'm not. The
New York Times, according to Loewinger, his guests, and OTM, leads a
right-wing hate group whose members include Emily Bazelon and Andrew Sullivan.
This is delusional hysteria. It is featured on an award-winning,
taxpayer-funded broadcast. There is something very wrong here.
Loewinger
allows Gill-Peterson to speak at length, and to speak without any questioning
of any of his false assertions. Loewinger practices agitprop, not journalism.
The
Times, Gill-Peterson alleges, publishes articles that suggest that
"there is a vast conspiracy in which there are too many of us," that
is, too many trans people. In other words, according to Gill-Peterson, the New
York Times is a supporter of a non-existent trans genocide. "Trans
genocide" is a phrase used by trans extremists. Just as trans extremists
plug their narrative into the Civil Rights template, and appropriate that
history, that is not their own, with phrases like "Trans Jim Crow,"
they shamelessly steal from the Holocaust and other genocides, alleging that,
for example, a law preventing men from entering women's bathrooms is an act of
"trans genocide." "
Loewinger
violates language to divide the world into two distinct groups: on the one hand
are trans people and trans allies; on the other hand are the bad guys, who are
"anti-trans." You are a "transphobe" if you think that
little boys should not amputate healthy testicles. You are
"anti-trans" if you think that male rapists should not be housed with
women in prisons. You are someone who "discriminates" if you applaud
little girls competing against other little girls in sports.
Loewinger
mentions Genspect. Genspect's web page defines the group as "an
international, non-partisan, interdisciplinary professional and educational
organisation devoted to advancing a healthy approach to sex and gender. Our
team and members strive to promote high-quality, evidence-based care for
gender-nonconforming individuals all around the world." Genspect's leadership
team includes health care and educational
professionals, as well as parents and a few detransitioners, that is persons
who attempted to change their sex through surgery and drugs, and then abandoned
that effort. Loewinger suggests that Genspect should have been identified as
"hate group." Genspect is a hate group in the same sense that puppies
are terrorists.
Grace
Lidinsky-Smith had a psychological crisis in her early twenties. Professionals
encouraged her to assess herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. She began
testosterone injections. Within months she had a double mastectomy. She now
regrets this and speaks about her regret publicly. Loewinger dismisses
Lidinsky-Smith as someone "cited in partisan, right-wing coverage."
She pushes junk science, Loewinger protests. She partners with "explicitly
anti-trans hate groups." Loewinger has zero compassion for a young woman
whose body is scarred for life, scarred by a false ideology. Loewinger kicks
Lidinsky-Smith and smears her because she is not useful to his ideology.
Loewinger dismisses Lidinsky-Smith's tragedy as a mere "anecdote"
that is "quite dramatic" and "used" by
"conservatives."
George
Orwell prepared us for Loewinger. You are not, say, sane, rational,
responsible, and compassionate if you think it's a bad idea to sexually
mutilate children. Rather, Loewinger and other trans extremists place you in
the same class with the KKK, Lester Maddox, and slave ship captains. You are
one of those folks putting targets on innocent people's backs. Combating you is
as noble as taking part in a 1960s Freedom Ride to segregated Alabama.
OTM
claims that
Lisa Littman's work on trans as a social contagion is
"pseudo-science" that has been "debunked over and over
again." Why, then, have so many children suddenly come out as trans? OTM
cites that fully credentialed, unimpeachable scholar, the potty-mouthed, TV
comic John Oliver. Children used to identify as right-handed because they were
encouraged to use their right hands. As left-handedness became more acceptable,
more children identified as left-handed.
Really.
Really. National Public Radio anoints a TV comic to decide whether or not
children should be gelded. NPR does this without ever, in a forty-minute
broadcast, acknowledging that gelding children is what they are actually
discussing. And we are equating castration and double mastectomies with
left-handedness.
Oh,
and here's one more point we are not to notice or mention. Our authoritative
guest, Jules Gill-Peterson, insists that trans people face genocidal pressure
from Christian fascists. That's how intolerant America is. But at the same
time, America is so suddenly accepting that all the closeted trans children are
feeling safe enough to emerge from their closets, and that's why there is a 4,000% increase in
children declaring themselves trans. Please note that trans extremists
completely contradict their own logic with these positions – America is both
suddenly tolerant of trans; America is simultaneously a site of
Christian-caused Trans Jim Crow and trans genocide. Please note also that they
cannot explain why the astronomical increase in trans identification is
occurring among children, not adults, and,
specifically, children who spend a great deal of time on the internet.
The
regret rate for "gender affirming care" is under one percent,
Gill-Peterson claims. This is false. In fact, trans identification among
children has increased dramatically in recent years, and it is only in recent
years that transing children has become a mass phenomenon. Regret often takes
years to develop. It is thus impossible to accumulate adequate data on regret
on so recent a phenomenon. Trans people, Gill-Peterson claims, never harass
detransitioners. "Nothing could be further from the truth … We love and
care for them … We know how hard it is to feel like you are safe enough to
live" as a trans person. In other words, according to Gill-Peterson,
people only detransition because it isn't "safe" to be trans. But,
see above about left handedness. The reason the number of people identifying as
trans has skyrocketed is that it is suddenly safe to be trans. Gill-Peterson
contradicts his own argument when he insists that detransitioners are motivated
purely by hostility from transphobes.
Further,
contrary to Gill-Peterson, trans extremists' vicious harassment of
detransitioners is a well-documented fact. See "Young people
who detransition describe death threats, doxxing, intimidation, and being
accused of 'genocide' from the 'cult-like' transgender community they turn
their backs on." "I've seen the level of hate really escalate to the
point that any time a new detransitioner shares their story online, they get
dogpiled by thousands of trans activists, bullied, ridiculed, and of course
death threats," said Cat
Cattinson, one detransitioner.
Gill-Peterson
insists that any health risks associated with puberty blockers are not a matter
of concern because "Almost no trans kids take them." "Almost
no" is, according to one source, over five
thousand. These blockers pose multiple threats to long-term health. One Swedish
child on puberty blockers, Leo, now has osteoporosis and lives with pain and
fragile bones. Read about Leo here and see a
documentary about Leo here.
Gill-Peterson
says that people regret other surgeries. Yes, people regret surgeries that go
wrong, that do not accomplish what they are meant to accomplish, or that result
in unforeseen side effects. Detransitioners regret surgeries that do what they
promise to do – remove healthy breasts, testicles, and penises.
OTM
closes its
broadcast with Gill-Peterson accusing anyone who resists trans extremism of
being just like Hitler. American culture now is comparable, he says, to "the
rise of fascism in Europe a hundred years ago."
An
August 14, 2023 search of the term "transgender" turned up
725,000,000 results. A search of WNYC's page turned up 4,000 results. The same
search found many fewer results when time was limited to before 2000, and no
results – none at all – at WNYC before 2000. Some time between 2000 and 2023,
the powers that be at WNYC, and the wider world, decided that transgenderism
required intense focus. Why?
Not
just leftist media paid scant attention to "trans" before 2000. Trans
activists like Jules Gill-Peterson insist that hatred of trans people is a prominent
feature of Western civilization. But violent haters, as well as leftist radio
broadcasters, left relatively scant records of paying much attention to persons
living as the opposite sex. One of the most notorious hate sites (which I will
refrain from naming), dedicated to hatred of Jews and blacks, began thirty
years ago, making it one of the oldest of all sites on the web. Thirty years
ago, demented haters took time out of their days to bash Jews and blacks.
Thirty years ago there were certainly a plethora of media depicting vile crimes
against women's bodies, just as there are today. If rape, domestic violence,
and murder were counted as hate crimes, women would surely be among the most
victimized populations. The movies, pornography, websites, and actual crimes
from thirty years ago that focused on denigrating or destroying women paid much
less attention to persons identified as trans. So, decades ago, leftist
activists devoted almost no attention to an alleged "trans genocide,"
and major hate groups also devoted minimal public attention to this same
genocide. Suddenly, WNYC and other leftist organs are obsessed with an alleged
trans genocide. Why is this happening now?
Scholars
like Chris Rufo and James
Lindsay offer an explanation. The Soviet
Empire fell, inevitably, miserably, and for all the world to see its public
humiliation. Before falling, the Soviet Empire was notorious as a site of mass
murder. Communist China also killed tens of millions of its own citizens in the
name of Marxist Utopia. Vietnam and Cambodia, much smaller countries, committed
notorious atrocities in the name of Marx. Marxists needed a new cover. They
turned their interpretation of struggle from class to race to sex. Queer Theory
and trans extremism would no doubt be suppressed in the Soviet Union. Randy Shilts claimed
that Mao's Red Guard publicly castrated gay men. In spite of Communist regimes'
deadly hostility to LGBT people, Queer Theory and trans extremism have been
deputized as the new tools to dismantle Western Civilization and pave the way
for a Marxist Utopia. They came to the forefront because of the very success of
the Civil Rights Movement and feminism. If Jim Crow still exercised power, the
Left would not be exploiting vulnerable persons who suffer from gender
dysphoria.
The
Civil Rights Movement confronted a deadly and all too real villain. There were
centuries of slavery, followed by Jim Crow. Lynching, segregation, and the
denigration of black people in popular culture all had to be overcome. The very
real bad guys could be labeled "racists" or "white
supremacists." In the United States, for the past sixty years, these terms
are among the worst insults.
Trans
extremism appropriates the outrage attached to words like "bigot" and
"discrimination." Witness Gill-Peterson's Jewish Currents
piece and his Scientific American interview. Gill-Peterson overtly
piggy-backs on outrage against racism. Trans extremism appropriates the Civil
Rights Movement narrative. Instead of struggling to overcome slavery and Jim
Crow, trans extremists are struggling to overcome a completely imaginary enemy,
Christian fascists who torture trans kids and are carrying out a trans
genocide. Trans extremists are not working to rescue anyone from prejudice.
Rather, they are exploiting others' pain to undermine society. Telling children
that sex is not real is one of the most potent ways to achieve this end. Queer
Theory states this society-undermining goal overtly.
The
bourgeois Woke, who don't bother to educate themselves about trans extremism,
take up their roles. They think that they are part of a liberatory movement
that is overthrowing an evil system of oppression that didn't even exist twenty
years ago. These bourgeois Woke are mislead. Those advancing trans extremism
are not humanitarians. If they had any concern for human life at all, they
would care about Kobe; they would care about Leo; they would care about Grace
Lidinski-Smith, whom they dismiss as a right-wing tool. They don't care about
any of these victims. Decent people care about all these detransitioners and we
also care about those who continue to identify as trans. We want the best for
Dr. Erica Anderson and Buck Angel, as well as Kobe and Leo. We want the best
for Jules Gill-Peterson and Micah Loewinger, and we work for that by exposing
their lies and inviting them to truth. Trans extremists, unlike us, do not have
universal compassion for all people. They have no compassion at all. They are
exploiters, instrumentalizing others' pain to undermine their enemy, Western
Civilization.
Danusha
Goska is the author of God Through Binoculars: A Hitchhiker at a Monastery
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